Huffington Post launched a College section a few weeks ago (which InsideVandy is a part of), sort of mixing the defunct UWire and college!Drudge, mostly so they could link to news around the country, but some op-eds as well, like “Fine with not having a job yet” from UPenn’s Daily Pennsylvanian: Figuring out our futures [...]

I know I’m late to the game on this one, but I saw “Up in the Air” and it kind of found my heart, nudged it gently, threw a friendly arm around it, and then knifed it. “Up in the Air” revolves around the idea that all things can be made more efficient, can be [...]

Drag Me to Hell would like to teach you a life lesson this summer: When a creepy gypsy woman with one seriously terrifying eye comes to beg for a third extension on her mortgage payment to avoid eviction, you give it to her. YOU GIVE IT TO HER. I’d wager she’s a member of the [...]

Tim Geithner plans to knife that sad little bag of melancholy known as American capitalism this morning. Via the Washington Post: Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner plans to propose today a sweeping expansion of federal authority over the financial system, breaking from an era in which the government stood back from financial markets and allowed [...]

Last week, we conducted a poll on the pressing matters of the day, naturally, with a survey sent via email to about 380 randomly selected Vandy students, 91 of whom responded. The data can be downloaded here (it’s only six questions), but let’s round up some factual information about our fine campus: 57.1 percent approve [...]

Captain Ed at Hot Air brilliantly illustrated the utter incompetence flailing about right now in the White House with the sad, horrifying state of the Treasury Department. So let’s play a game. Here are all the appointments in the Treasury that require Senate confirmation: Secretary Deputy Secretary Under Secretary — Domestic Finance Under Secretary — [...]

If Obama screws up and then saves himself by saying “boom goes the dynamite” tonight? I will not publicly disagree with him for a month. Liveblogging the Single Greatest State of the Union in the History of State of Union Addresses and Other Assorted Speeches of Lesser Import will occur on this post. I feel [...]

Well, it happened. Geithner’s announced a sketchy bank rescue plan and the Dow’s tumbled about 400 points. Newsweek says we’re all socialists now. A farewell to American capitalism for the moment? But like T.I. says, “Adversity builds character. Character will take you places money can’t.” 58 percent of Americans disapproved of how the GOP handled [...]

One of our CN brethren, Patrick J. Ford of the GW Patriot, (partly) reposts this from Young Americans for Liberty: Palin. Jindal. Crist. Sanford. Pawlenty. Remember where these faux conservatives stood when it counted in 2012. Can the Jindal love finally end now? It can never end — never! When winter comes in summer, when [...]

I love NYMag.com’s Daily Intel in a very hardcore way, and today they brought us the gift of an image from the Blago trials: And, I certainly can’t disagree with their assessment: We’ve watched a lot of this coverage, and so far as we’ve seen, nobody has raised what we think is the most obvious [...]